Eleanor Catton I loved ‘Middlemarch,’ I think that’s one of my favourite books of all time, actually. – Eleanor Catton Books Quotes Favourite Quotes Loved Quotes Middlemarch Quotes Time Quotes Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. The Luminaries’ is such a different book to ‘The Rehearsal.’ There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there’s a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there’s patterning.
Steve Lacy I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. – Steve Lacy
Ally Brooke I love Doritos – the nacho flavor. The Cool Ranch is good; it’s a good second. – Ally Brooke
Edward Gibbon The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. – Edward Gibbon
Bretman Rock Growing up in the Philippines, I wanted to be so much like my dad. He taught me simple survival stuff. – Bretman Rock
Harris Faulkner People often ask how my hair has that supreme fullness even at midnight. Here’s a trick that one of our Fox News stylists taught me: Backcomb your hair just at the crown for height, and then put a large velcro roller there and wear it for as long as you can. I keep rollers in until showtime. – Harris Faulkner
Mitch McConnell And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again. – Mitch McConnell
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